A rule to live by: I won't use anything I can't explain in five minutes.

Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not.

Selecting the right person for the right job is the largest part of coaching.

Quality has to be caused, not controlled.

No one can remember more than three points.

We can spend our whole lives underachieving.

Quality is the result of a carefully constructed cultural environment. It has to be the fabric of the organization, not part of the fabric.

Being convinced one knows the whole story is the surest way to fail.

Very few of the great leaders ever get through their careers without failing, sometimes dramatically.

Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.

The audience only pays attention as long as you know where you are going.

Change should be a friend. It should happen by plan, not by accident.

A rule to live by: I won't use anything I can't explain in five minutes.

The great discoveries are usually obvious.

Successful people breed success.

You don't have to be noisy to be effective.

Eliminating what is not wanted or needed is profitable in itself.

You have to lead people gently toward what they already know is right.

In a true zero-defects approach, there are no unimportant items.

If anything is certain, it is that change is certain. The world we are planning for today will not exist in this form tomorrow.

It is always cheaper to do the job right the first time.

Quality management is needed because nothing is simple anymore, if indeed it ever was.

When you're out of quality, you're out of business.

Time is the wisest counsellor of all.

I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems... It's got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.

Who wouldn't fancy Brian Epstein? He was tall and handsome and had money and class.

I've been in love with people and ideas in several cities and learned that the lovers I've loved and the ideas I've embraced depended on where I was, how cold it was, and what I had to do to be able to stand it.

Believing that our greatest need is for the general public to be able to get better information, to have an opportunity to learn better the real issues of the less fortunate, we centered the activities of the Fairness Project on that.

The Menzies Government, by its participation in the plans for the development of other nations, can see the virtue of planning for them but apparently cannot see the virtue of a plan for Australia.

I just want kids to have a chance to go and try an Olympic sport. Every kid has a bike - that's how I started, and one kid coming along and giving it a go could make that journey to the Olympics.

We remain very confident in the safety of U.S. beef.

It’s tapping into something so deep that when I reap the rewards, I do not even know I’m reaping them.

Near-term deficits are temporary and manageable if - and only if - we keep spending in check, the tax burden low and the economy growing.

Self pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.

Acting is a plum gig, and then animation is an even more plum gig.

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.

We are all responsible to Jesus first, and then, under him, to various other persons and offices. Discerning the path of love and obedience when two or more of these submissive relationships collide is a call to humble, Bible-saturated, spiritual wisdom.

I used to think you should keep on experimenting and seeing new things. But after seeing a lot of the world, I now tend to return to the same spots. I enjoy the familiarity.

If I can get a sanitized version of reality, I'll take it.

I've always been a very young person with a very old soul.

A lot of people dont see when we lose and go through tough times how upset and disappointed we are.

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You dont try to forget the mistakes but you dont dwell on it. You dont let it have any of your energy or any of your time or any of your space.

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

It's OK to have a plan, to invest in your future - for your financial security, your love life, your personal fulfillment, and even your happiness. To have personal happiness as a stated goal doesn't detract from it if you get there.

You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.

I like that theres no love as fierce as the love you feel for your family that theres no one you feel more protective of than the very same people who can drive you crazy.